[Foundation-l] Fwd: Should WMF opt out of Phorm?

[geni]

2009/4/1 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-phorm/
>
> Should we say "er, no, not our data either" or ignore them?
>
> (This has been discussed on internal lists as well, with all
> commenting saying "HELL YES." The question then is whether, by some
> obscure legal twist, this would leave WMF somehow exposed. And whether
> it's worth it anyway.)
>
>
> - d.

Wikipedia is not a campaigning organisation. We already supply
information to people who's net access is monitored by far more
worrying groups than phorm. So the privacy issues would not on their
own be a justification.






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geni